The moonlight was already high, the light shining throughout the space. The ground and the branches seemed covered with a layer of fanciful silver. Somewhere there was a faint scent of apricot blossoms.
Mo Qin gently took my hand and said:
- Yna! I'm almost home. My father will bring someone to pick me up. At that time, it was impossible to want to stay. Stay healthy, and wait for the day when I return to pick you up.
I nodded slightly. Say "yes" to him. He said he would soon take me as his wife. I promise to be with him all my life without leaving.
A few days later, a group of people came to work and found Mo Qin. They seem to reverently say something to him. Then he and the others left. Hearing of his departure, I rushed back to the village. He was nowhere to be seen, and I hurriedly jumped on a horse in pursuit. But he was nowhere to be seen. Putting my head down on my horse, I sobbed. A feeling of frustration spread in my heart.
Finally, Mo Qin left me.
It's been a year, and I thought you'd forgotten about me. But I persisted in weaving and waiting for him. Waiting for the day he welcomed me as his wife even though I knew my wait was hopeless.
One day, suddenly out of nowhere a caravan of people came. The rider was none other than Mo Qin
While weaving fabric in the house, suddenly there was a loud call:
- Yna! Mo Qin was back.
Hearing that, the shuttle in my ear fell to the ground, and I rushed to the door. In front of me was Mo Qin. He smiled softly and said:
- I’m back.
I ran over and hugged him tightly, crying. Mo Qin also hugged me tightly and said softly:
- Hold on to me! I'm sorry I made you wait so long.
- You're evil! Make me wait a year without news.
- I'm sorry I'm going to fight, so I can come back and pick you up. I want you to have a peaceful life and see the peace of the country.
In the evening, everyone went to Mo Qin's old house, they wanted to hear his story of fighting. Under the flickering firelight, people listened to the soldiers tell stories about him. He motioned for me to leave. On the bank of the stream in the moonlight, Mo Qin spoke softly as breath.
- Be my wife!
I nodded slightly, smiling happily.
A small wedding between me and Mo Qin took place according to the custom of the ethnic people, I could not expect that Mo Qin could understand the custom that much.
On that day, Mo Qin brought offerings to pick up the bride, which was: 100 rice cakes, 400 small thick cakes, 2 large thick cakes, a roast pig, a pair of chickens, wine, betel nut, a pair of small fish, a secretion tube, a piece of pig's heart, a bag of seeds, some sugar, etc A bag of "snuffs" stitched with red cloth, a red cloth called a "full moon". I don't know when he prepared it so quickly. In less than a day he had finished preparing the offering. I asked, and he just replied it was a secret.
With the blessing of the villagers, we became husband and wife.
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The ringing of the phone startled me awake. Reaching out to grab the phone from my pocket and pressing the answer button, my voice was sleepy:
- Mom?
- What did you do? Do you know how I'm worried about you?"
- I overslept, I didn't know you were calling. I'm sorry.
- This sleepy gluttonous girl, I don't know when I'll stop worrying."
I smiled, drumming away:
- You let me sleep, and I dreamed that the prince would come in procession.
- You've got it taken.
Her laughter made the still night warmer. Somewhere in the forest, there were still a few late-blooming apricot branches.
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